Request for cooperation between ReactOS and Haiku for Google Summer of Code 2009

[Matt Madia]

Greetings,

I heard the unfortunate news about Google's decision regarding your
community's application for Google Summer of Code 2009.  ReactOS was
one of the many interesting projects that I hoped to be accepted.

Do any of the people who were planning on being mentors have interest
in mentoring a student with Haiku in a joint project?

One project in mind, is mmu_man's usb webcam drivers.   There is
intention for this driver to be developed in such a way that it
encourages developer collaboration between other OS's, such as AROS,
AmigaOS, MorphOS, and of course ReactOS + Haiku.

For multiple reasons, this would be very good for ReactOS, both in the
eyes of Google and in terms of furthering ReactOS's codebase.  First
and foremost, your codebase would be receiving additional drivers,
which in my experience is always a good thing(tm).  Your community
would receive additional positive exposure.  Regarding Google, this
participation would display to them ReactOS's dedication to
participating in GSoC, through any available avenue.  On top of that,
the notion of not merely porting a pre-existing driver, but actually
having developers from different OS's working with each other at the
same time to produce and enhance the driver is a wonderful achievement
that should be encouraged.

So, I encourage anyone who interested to reply by any means :)
I'm usually available online as mmadia on irc.freenode.net

Thank you.

Matt Madia
primary admin for Haiku

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Matt Madia <mattmadia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   So, I encourage anyone who interested to reply by any
> means :)
>  I'm usually available online as mmadia on irc.freenode.net 
One idea that I had not SoC related but good for Haiku in general was
a port of Wine. If perhaps you were able to get a SoC student to sign
on for that or maybe convince the Wine guys to list it. It would help
all projects involved by creating a larger pool of developers that
were working on a set of common libraries.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo